The language of the opioid crisis and its impact on policies and patients
Peter Torres honored with Elizabeth Dayton award for collaborative linguistic work
"(SACRAMENTO) Language is an intricate tool of expression, and Peter Torres has unraveled some of its complexities by analyzing doctor-patient conversations about opioid use and addiction.
Torres, a doctoral candidate in the UC Davis Department of Linguistics, wrote his dissertation on how the current opioid crisis is linguistically expressed in policies and medical interactions. His work just earned him this year’s Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Elizabeth Dayton Award.
Torres’ remarkable work is the result of collaboration among UC Davis researchers from different disciplines."